Author: Edward Abbey

Quotes

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

- Edward Abbey

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

- Edward Abbey

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

- Edward Abbey

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

- Edward Abbey

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

- Edward Abbey

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

- Edward Abbey

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

- Edward Abbey

Grown men do not need leaders.

Grown men do not need leaders.

- Edward Abbey

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

- Edward Abbey

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